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Will Damron
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W. Lawrence
About this listen
Travel to the future - it will cost you only everyone you love.
Attacked and injected with a drug that slows his metabolism to a fraction of normal, Martin James becomes an unwilling time traveler who hurtles through the years. His children grow up, his wife grows older, and his only hope is finding the people who injected him in the first place - not an easy task when one day for Martin lasts four years. And while Martin James strives to find a cure before everyone he loves is gone, others are uncertain if his journey can be stopped at all.
W. Lawrence weaves a dystopian future filled with the best and worst of humanity, highlights the blessings and curses of technology, and pushes the limits of faith and hopelessness. Above all, Syncing Forward is a tale of one man's love for his family and their devotion to saving him from being lost forever.
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- Winner: 2016 Voice Arts Award for Audiobook Narration - Fiction, Best Narrator
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- Midwestbonsai
- 03-01-16
very well executed
Martin James works in Security for a very big pharmaceutical company. He has a natural talent for the job and usually has everything under control, but everything falls apart when he interviews several employees who seem to be working on something illegal. The wrong question at the wrong time causes Martin to be kidnapped by this band and injected an unknown substance, which Martin will soon discover, makes him slow down until the point that he will not be able to interact with anybody. Martin is alone, nobody knows what is happening to him, and worst of all, how to cure him.
This is a very original idea and it was very well executed. It could have been boring, and despite it is a quite long book, one is always wanting for more. The story spans around 100 years but for Martin it just feels like a few days. The difference in speeds seems daunting but well resolved by the experts and his family. This first part reminded me a lot of Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward, and both books showed very clever solutions to this problem.
Martin is just the victim of a much bigger game, just collateral damage, and even though this book is about morals and the conflict between which genetic enhancements are right or wrong, this book is, above all, about family. Martin is a good professional, even though he screwed it up here, and will carry the guilt forever with him; but Martin is above all, a family man, and this is exactly what he will lose. The drug he was injected will disconnect him from everything and everybody he loves, and W. Lawrence does a wonderful job in describing the sense of loss, regret but also love.
I like how the characters were depicted. Some people may think Martin was not fully developed but we have to remember that we see him in just a couple of weeks in his life, while for the rest of the world more than 100 years have passed.
Will Damron really becomes Martin when reading this story, and his voice has the power of transmitting his emotions, his regrets and his despair. He was the perfect narrator for this beautiful and sad story. The audio production was good and seamless, allowing you to focus on the story.
I have minor complaints, like the Spanish in the book was not all 100% correct (like it happens in many books), and the Spanish speaking characters sounded more like Hindi. All in all, I recognize these are minor issues that would have been missed by many.
This was a wonderful listen that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys science fiction and an out of the normal powerful story.
Audiobook was purchased for review by ABR.
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- Jake & Elwood
- 04-29-16
Sad at times but interesting, worth the listen...
Sad at times but interesting, worth the listen... kept me listening. would listen to a follow up book.
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- Daniel
- 02-06-18
Emotional Rollercoster
Really different story from what Im used to, filled with all kinds of emotions, it will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will make you angry. Really good narrative.
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- Raymond Walsh
- 11-19-16
I thought this book would never end
The middle 70% of this book was very hard to sit through.
The main character pines away for hours and after a while I realized I didn't care anymore.
It is tough to elaborate without spoilers.
Had this been 10 hours shorter it would have been pretty fun, but it was not.
Instead, I recommend you spend your time on:
The Martian
Ready Player One
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Dog Stars
In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You
The Girl on the Train
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- Mad About Beauty
- 06-06-17
Interesting but isn't going into my favorite list
Syncing Forward is an interesting take on time travel, however, not my favorite. I didn't feel as if I couldn't put it down. I felt connected to the depression of losing your family if you were to outlive them. I also thought the medical way to time travel was believable. It's a decent book but I am not sure I will remember I even read it years to come.
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- Combaticus
- 11-30-16
Modern and GOOD
Complex but not complicated. Needs 20 word but I would prefer not to project my own meening on the work. Strong plot pulled on my emotions and my intellect. I will likely listen again in a few weeks because there is depth here and I enjoy swimming. Great narration.
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- Jason
- 11-18-16
Absolutely fantastic though emotionally draining
Very interesting device for having the main character going through time at a different rate than the rest of the world. The end wrap up felt a bit forced, but otherwise it was good. I have to say that the main character's story was so full of tragedy that I felt very drained at several points in the book.
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- Lisa Umile
- 11-12-16
A book to make you want to know what is next
I really liked this book, although I would not say it's the best out there it's still quite good. I would definitely recommend it to futuristic sci-fi junkies like myself. I specifically enjoy books where the main character is doing the talking to the reader. It's definitely heartwarming and I must say I shed a few tears. You can really imagine the depth of feelings the main character is going through. His loses. I did not like the ending because after so long of a story it seemed to have a rushed strange unanswered ending. So besides the ending, and the forward syncing of the main character the story keeps headlines of news articles to give the reader an idea of the changing world in the future. It's a heartwarming sci-fi so if you like that you will like this, minus the very, very end.
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- bilezmom
- 02-15-17
Great concept. Empty ending.
The story was clever, but dragged. Just as I was finally anticipating satisfaction, the ending left me hanging and empty. So disappointing.
The narrator has a lovely voice, but does not have the hang of accents. A little distracting, but doable.
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- Durk D DeVries
- 02-12-24
So very repetitive
The main character grouses & whines about his wayyyy too much and makes it hard to care about him
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